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microfsxpilot t1_j7n4yiu wrote

Careful. Reddit is filled with FaceID fanboys that will defend it to the grave. I’ve gotten downvoted to hell for criticizing it.

I just wish Apple would give us both. I routinely wear a headset and sunglasses at work and faceid refuses to work. At night/morning time, my double chin is so prominent, faceid refuses to work. But my finger would work 95% of the time

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LORD_CMDR_INTERNET t1_j7n4thi wrote

…Said no one ever that actually uses an iPhone. 16:9 content doesn’t stretch anywhere near that width. Even the widest cinema formats don’t touch it. And if for whatever reason you zoomed wayyyyy in to fill the screen (you would never do this), your brain tunes it out instantaneously.

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rogerflog t1_j7mt6kw wrote

13 Pro Max here.

I’m not interested in the Dynamic Island.

It’s a solution in search of a problem. Then handed over to the Apple Megamarketing Department so that they could squeeze every drop of sweet money out of those lines of code.

Notch is much less noticeable in landscape. I imagine the Dynamic Island notifications in landscape would just take up more space (or be locked in portrait orientation) and annoy the crap out of me.

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SOSpammy t1_j7mnti5 wrote

Apple has kept the iPad limited because they want people to buy both a Mac and an iPad, but with iPad sales declining and Mac sales going up it seems to me they miscalculated. A lot of people were buying iPads despite their limitations because of their speed, battery life, light weight, and great thermals compared to a traditional laptop. But M1 Macbooks basically negated those advantages.

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